Noxico

While working on randomized opponent callouts, I noticed that most of the font sheets were off, color-wise. And while fixing that, I noticed the option to enable 437 Simulation mode was not in the string list. That is, the checkbox said [opt_437] instead of a regular thing. In honor of that option finally being properly captioned, here’s the thing in action. There’s a lookup table that maps in-game tile numbers to Unicode and Codepage 437. One is used for HTML dumps, the other for this mode. I kinda want to make it render the player as a @ and use the initial of a character’s title…

Tumblr has officially shut the door on NSFW content a couple weeks back and the Noxico blog was one of the victims. I just finished reposting almost every post on there worth reposting, and a bunch that weren’t. The only thing missing is asks.

Well, let’s see what we get. I already posted a status update on my other blog last month so… that just leaves the drive to actually do something.

The minimum would be like 80×25, the screen size, and connected boards would have to have matching edges. That is, a board that’s N tiles tall can only be connected on the east and west sides by boards that are also N tiles tall.

Surface boards could be 128×128, or 128×64 to adjust for tall tiles, which would make for nice “powers of two” work and fully covers the equal side lengths rule. Dungeons could be any size, considering those are currently only connected by stairways and such.

Hi, we’re not dead yet! Here’s a thing that I’ve been pondering and just put in source control as an issue. I thought I’d mirror it here on Tumblr for coverage.

Right now, a given character can have any amount of penises and vaginas stuck down there, all different, and any amount of breasts, each row different. This complicates things like sex. Enormously.

I think actually getting the sex parts done would go a lot better, and actually playing them likewise, if we severely cut down on the whole “mess of genitalia” thing.

I’m thinking, a character would have a single penis token or none, with its size and type, and it may have a double token in there to signify there’s two. Similarly, there can be only one vagina token or none, the ability to have two very much up for discussion. Any extras would be limited to cocknipples, nipplecunts, tentacles, and tails.

Now, the old-style message command token picks one of its children at random. The Lua version takes a single string or a table of random picks, which may themselves include more tables of random picks, and can have a color parameter to make the message stand out more. That’s why there’s those {} in there; to remind and invite to add more variations.